1 ** Community Project to Aid Hard-of-Hearing Earns Support in Planned Conference Here ********* ** :: 4 . ***************** THE JEWISH NEWS Feature News Story, Page 56 A Weekly Review of Jewish Events Calling Spade a Spade in Middle East Issue and the New Front Line Editorials, Page 4 VOL. LXXIII, No.12 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c May 26, 1978 Detroit Nazi Re-Opening Hit; Court Clouds Skokie Parade Nazis, evicted from their "bookstore" on Detroit's south- Passengers Credit Israelis west Detroit side this spring, opened a new storefront headquarters at 20807 Fenkell in northwest Detroit on Saturday amid militant neighbor- for Halting Orly Terrorists hood opposition. At the same time, a Federal appeals court parade in that American Nazis can go ahead with was ruling a long contested - PARIS (JTA) — Passengers on an El Al flight from Paris who were targets of an Arab terrorist machinegun attack at Orly Airport Satur- day afternoon, claimed that had it not been for the alertness and instant response of Israeli security guards, the Lod Airport massacre of May 3a, 1972 would have been repeated. The three terrorists were killed in a hail of bullets near the El Al boarding gate, but not before one of them fatally shot a French police- man. Two other policemen and three passengers waiting to board an Iberia Airline flight to Malaga from an adjoining gate were wounded. The El Al passengers credited Israeli security guards with gunning down the terrorists. Reports from Paris said French police opened fire killing the terrorists seconds after they drew their weapons. One of the dead terrorists was identified as a 25-year-old Lebanese, Mahmoud Awada. Only about a dozen passengers completed the trip aboard the El Al jumbo jet. Originally a tourist party of over 200 French insurance agents was to have made the flight but the group cancelled their trip after the shooting. Two of the French tourists, Claude and Miriam Haddad, made the trip anyway. Haddad said he convinced nine others to stay with the flight despite the shock of the attack. Another returning passenger was Labor Minister Israel Katz. He said he was certain the attack was not directed at him because he booked on the flight at the last minute after reaching Paris from Nice. A group calling itself the Sons of South Lebanon claimed responsibil- ity for the attack, saying it would be the first of a series against the French in the Middle East and Africa. The attack was claimed to be in retaliation for a recent clash between French UN troops and Fatah terrorists in the Lebanese village of Abassieh and a warning against French "colonialism." predominately Jewish Skokie, Ill. In Detroit on Saturday, Charles Benham, executive director of the Detroit Round Table of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, was punched and shoved out of the Nazi headquarters after he told the Nazis they did not belong in the neighborhood. Leonard Green, state commander of the Jewish War Veterans, was picketing in front of the store and witnessed the incident. Benham filed a complaint with police and one of the Nazis, Merrill Fulton, was charged with assault. He failed to appear for arraign- ment on Tuesday and a warrant was issued for his arrest. Picketing in front of the store has been violent throughout the week and a number of anti-Nazi demonstrators have been arrested. At an anti-Nazi community meeting Tuesday night at CHARLES BENHAM- the Brightmoor Community Center, a large crowd nearly got out of hand on several occasions. Businessmen who have stores near the Nazis will seek help from city officials to see if Detroit's nuisance statutes can be used to have the Nazis evicted. They will ,.:so meet with police officials to discuss their handling of the demonstrations and vowed to make the demonstrations or- ganized and non-violent. Green told The Jewish News that the JWV was seeking support from all units associated with Michigan's Allied Veterans Council for a massive demonstration this weekend. Green was one of the first pickets at the store Saturday morning, following a t& 2phone call from a JWV member. Benham, who lives in a near-by neighborhood, heard about the new Nazi headquarters while at the post office one block away. "The news media picture that comes across," Benham said, "is that of a community in uproar because of a handfull of `neo Nazis', and that if people would not react to them the problem would be resolved and we can achieve our number one objective — the - (Continued on Page 13) Yeshiva to Cite Dr. Kantrowitz 200,000 in Paraide for Soviet Jewry; Carter Aide Mocked NEW YORK — Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, chairman of the Department of Cardiovas- cular and Thoracic Surgery at Sinai Hospi- tal of Detroit, will receive Yeshiva Univer- sity's Mordecai ben David Award at the uni- versity's 47th annual commencement June 8. Dr. Kantrowitz will be cited for his "noteworthy record of success in the promo- tion and encouragement of self-respect, self-defense and independence and courage among members of the Jewish faith . . :" Honorary doctorates will be awarded to Dr. Ernest L. Boyer, U.S. Commissioner of Education; Dr. Meir Felman, rabbi of the Judea Center in Brook- lyn; Dr. Sheldon Glashow, professor of physics at Harvard; sculptor Chaim Gross; Dr. David M. Maeir, di- rector general of Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem; Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan; and Irving S. Shapiro, chirman of E.I. Du Pont KANTROWITZ de Nemours & Co. NEW YORK (JTA) — Thousands of Jews and non-Jews from the Greater New York area marched down Broadway from City Hall to Battery Park on Sunday where they joined many thousands more in a demonstration of support for Soviet Jewry. The crowd was estimated at 200,000 by the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry which has sponsored the "Solidarity Sunday for Soviet Jewry" event for the past seven years. The march was led off by a group of youngsters in the garb of Soviet prisoners followed by members of Congress, state and local officials, many of them carrying pictures of Soviet Jewish Prisoners of Conscience. Behind them came groups representing synagogues, Jewish organizations, Zionist groups, doctors, lawyers and the Interreligious Task Force for Soviet Jewry. While they carried such signs as "We Dare Not Repeat the Past," "Silence Kills, Will You Speak Out For Soviet Jews," and "For Them the Red Sea Has Not Yet Parted," the predominant banner this year was a picture of a Soviet Je aish prisoner. At Battery Park with the Statue of Liberty in the background, White House Counsel Robert Lipshutz said that looking at the statue reminded him that all four of his grandparents came to the United States fleeing Russia and now it is up to us to help other Russian Jews emigrate. Lipshutz said he brought a message from President Carter which said "To all of you who have assembled here today and to all those brave men and women who are with you in spirit, I am determined to stand by these commitments" to the Helsinki agreement on human rights. The White House Counsel told the audience that a "government which restricts its own citizens" such as Yuri Orlov or Anatoly Shcharansky "for insisting that their own government live up to its own constitution and international agree- ments, such a government can only invite the concern and distrust of people (Continued on Page 5) Israel Seeking Jets Redress JERUSALEM (JTA) — Premier Menahem Begin has appealed personally to President Carter to correct the military bal- ance of power in the Middle East that Israel believes has shifted in its disfavor as a result of the U.S. decision to sell advanced warplanes to Egypt and Saudi Arabia. In a letter to Carter, Begin expressed his gov- ernment's dismay over the aircraft package deal and asked for redress, apparently in the form of additional sophisticated weaponry for Israel. The letter followed a five-hour Cabinet session Sunday devoted largely to the impli- cations of the warplanes sales to the Arab countries as well as to Israel. The Cabinet de- cided to press the U.S. for long-term "compen- sation." Observers ex- pect Defense Minister Ezer Weizman to go to Washington shortly to seek acceleration of the "Matmon-C" program which calls for an American commitment BEGIN (Continued on Page 6) MARCH 27, 1992 123